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A teenage ‘jihadi bride’ plotted a terror attack on London under the guise of an Alice In Wonderland-themed tea party, a court has heard.
Safaa Boular was aged 17 when she planned to “unleash violence and terror in the heart of London” by launching a grenade and gun attack on the British Museum, her trial at the Old Bailey heard.
Jurors were told that Boular was inspired following a failed bid to marry IS fighter Naweed Hussain and her resolve was strengthened when he was killed in Syria before she could join him.
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A teenage jihadi bride plotted a terror attack on London under the guise of an Alice In Wonderland themed tea party, a court has heard.
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After just three months chatting on social media, Boular and Hussain – who was in his 30s – had declared their love for each other, the court heard.
Safaa wanted to marry Hussain and don a suicide belt each, jurors were told.
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Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said: “Their plan then was that together they would, as Hussain put it, depart the world holding hands and taking others with them in an act of terrorism.”
But Boular’s aim to travel to Syria accompanied by her sister was scuppered when she was stopped by police at Stansted en route home from a holiday in Morocco in August 2016.
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Resolve – Boular’s resolve was strengthened when her IS fighter fiance was killed (Picture: PA)
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She allegedly switched her attention to Britain, keeping contact with Hussain on a secret phone through encrypted Telegram chat.
But British Security Services had deployed specially-trained role play officers to engage with Boular and Hussain – who talked about an ambush involving Russian-style guns and “pineapples”, code for grenades – online to keep track of their activities.
When Boular found out about Hussain’s death in April last year, she told an officer posing as an IS fighter that all she needed was a “car and a knife to get what I want to achieve” and said she had no time to “lounge around”, adding: “My heart yearns to be reunited with my dear husband for the very first time.”
In encrypted chat, she said Hussain had told her “something about a British Museum and the tokarev and pineapple”, Mr Atkinson said. Tokarev was said to be a type of Russian gun and pineapple, a code word for grenades.